Michel Foucault introduced the idea that films could deliberately
re-write the memory of history that people hold. Cinema has become
a large apparatus, with its influence felt far beyond the texts
themselves, into the fabric of everyday life. There is logic to
this apparatus, which governs how reception and retention of films
are shaped. Popular memory is embodied into everyday life, as part
of the cinematic apparatus, according to the libidinal structures
of desire and available avenues of expression. This book is an
examination of how popular memory is shaped and retained under the
influence of cinema. It attempts to address the microscopic
implications of the theories of discourse and power at the level of
subjectivity. Arguing that the work of Julia Kristeva, Pierre
Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Fran ois Lytoard provides
a way of understanding the embodied narrative resistance to the
powers of the apparatus, this book provides methods of using
critical theory for our understanding of the relationships between
cinema and popular memory.
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